I heard a presentation from a professor from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. He was the robotics expert who designed robots to go into 3 Mile Island for cleanup. He was on the ground in Chernobyl, at the request of the Soviet govt., before the public even knew about Chernobyl. He returns there every year and visits two orphanages housing the deformed children who continue to be born in the area since then. Here's their story.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/26/earlyshow/mai...This story is from 2006:Twenty Years Later, Heart-Breaking Effects Of Nuclear Accident
An overview of the world's worst nuclear accident and its fallout.
(CBS) April 26 marks the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, but the tragedy lingers in heartbreaking ways.
Twenty years ago, a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union exploded not once, but twice, soaking the atmosphere with 100 times more radiation than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
The plant is located on the border area between Ukraine and Belarus. At the time of the accident, about 7 million people lived in contaminated territories, including 3 million children. More than 5 million people, including more than a million children, still live in contaminated zones, according to the Chernobyl Children’s Project International, a not-for-profit organization that provides humanitarian and medical aid.
Two decades later, radioactive elements are spread through dust particles deposited in the earth by rainfall or enter the food chain through plants and animals, according to the organization. Millions continue to be exposed to these low doses of radiation, and their children are showing the tragic results. Many of them are born with disabilities so severe their parents either don't want them or can't help them.
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